T. D. Hamm 22 min read

Their ship swallowed by a cave-in on the Martian plateau, four survivors slog step by gruelling step toward a perilous safety, the only question being whose survival it will be.

T. D. Hamm's 1961 story is a tense adventure and survival space opera. Sharp, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a taut Martian survival tale where a disaster strands a handful of explorers in a hostile wasteland, and endurance, nerve, and a bitter question of trust drive a lean, suspenseful golden-age adventure.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

22 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Douglas